2025.01.22
Jan. 22nd, 2025 09:35 amNo need to believe in Climate Change — Your insurance company does: US homeowners in disaster-prone states face soaring insurance costs
Climate crisis is making it harder for insurance companies to operate, with many pausing or withdrawing policies
Oliver Milman
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/us-homeowners-insurance-costs-climate-crisis
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
Graham Readfearn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastrophic-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-its-most-widespread-coral-bleaching-study-finds
‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone
The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory
Catherine Shoard
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/22/i-will-fall-over-judi-dench-says-worsening-eyesight-means-she-cant-go-out-alone
‘A twist of the knife’: trans Americans respond to Trump’s executive order
Trans communities expected Trump to deliver on his threat to roll back their rights. That didn’t make it hurt any less
Alaina Demopoulos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/trump-executive-order-trans-reaction
My wonder of the world
Egypt holidays
Alternative wonders: why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my giants of history
Emerging from the heat shimmer, these two enormous statues in Luxor appear completely otherwordly – like giants in a wheat field
Alice Morrison
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jan/22/why-colossi-of-memnon-are-my-wonder-of-the-world-luxor-egypt
Snow flurries are rare in US south – now a blizzard has hit
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c805k7gj91ko
A new life for the US's abandoned railway stations
Kara Newman
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250121-a-new-life-for-abandoned-us-railway-stations
Climate crisis is making it harder for insurance companies to operate, with many pausing or withdrawing policies
Oliver Milman
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/us-homeowners-insurance-costs-climate-crisis
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease
Graham Readfearn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastrophic-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-its-most-widespread-coral-bleaching-study-finds
‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone
The actor, who was diagnosed with macular degeneration in 2012, has also struggled to see on film sets and learn lines having done so thanks to a photographic memory
Catherine Shoard
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/22/i-will-fall-over-judi-dench-says-worsening-eyesight-means-she-cant-go-out-alone
‘A twist of the knife’: trans Americans respond to Trump’s executive order
Trans communities expected Trump to deliver on his threat to roll back their rights. That didn’t make it hurt any less
Alaina Demopoulos
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/22/trump-executive-order-trans-reaction
My wonder of the world
Egypt holidays
Alternative wonders: why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my giants of history
Emerging from the heat shimmer, these two enormous statues in Luxor appear completely otherwordly – like giants in a wheat field
Alice Morrison
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jan/22/why-colossi-of-memnon-are-my-wonder-of-the-world-luxor-egypt
Snow flurries are rare in US south – now a blizzard has hit
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c805k7gj91ko
A new life for the US's abandoned railway stations
Kara Newman
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250121-a-new-life-for-abandoned-us-railway-stations